
"Hitler Will Self-Destruct". Why Winston Churchill turned down an opportunity to take out Adolf Hitler - and a special thank you to Hungary for standing up to the USSR in 1989
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Paul: Tell me the story again about Winston Churchill not wanting to go in and assassinate Hitler. Remember you said Winston Churchill?
Volker: Oh, you mean the one that Churchill vetoed?
Paul: Yeah.
Volker: It was a British Commando who had trained and had planned. And you could not - this was unwritten law. You could not take out the head of a country, even an enemy, without Churchill's okay. Churchill was a Prime Minister.
So, they approached Churchill and said, "The Germans have tried to assassinate Hitler. 2 bombs on 2 different planes didn't go off. And in a beer hall, they had a bomb that went off half an hour after Hitler left. Now we have July the 20th assassination attempt that fell apart. I have them, we have the men. We will take out Hitler. And we have a backup Commando if the first Commando fails. We will guarantee you we're going to get Hitler."
Churchill pondered and said, "I believe you. I believe that you would get Hitler. But if you take out Hitler, one of two things will happen. The Germans will either sue for peace, or the Generals will say, "Finally we got rid of him. Now we can conduct a war the way we wanted to, not the way Hitler wanted," who called himself the greatest strategist of all times.
Churchill says, "If we have number 2 and the Germans continue the war, then we have a much bigger problem than now. Where Hitler makes mistake after mistake after mistake. He's helping us, okay? The war will be over in a year. Churchill was right about it. Let him continue." And they did. That is history.